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As you've probably heard, Threads (a fairly new social network from Facebook's parent company Meta) is testing integration with the fediverse. Depending on how you look at it, it's a great opportunity, a huge threat, or both!

Back in May and June, when Threads' first announced their plans, there were quite a few polls on Mastodon about people's reactions, most showing opinions split roughly equally. How do people feel today?

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[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I don’t want to exclude a bunch of people just because they decided to use a server owned by meta.

I do.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You make the fediverse a worse place, if your default is to arbitrarily exclude and gatekeep against people unlike you, as it seems to be.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The people on Tumblr are entirely unlike me … but I have no issues federating with Tumblr.

You might want to consider why this is the case.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

I'd say you may want to consider why this is the case. If you're OK federating tumblr (which I agree with), but not ok federating threads, even if defederating threads won't impact Meta at all and only negatively affects thread users - that seems pretty hypocritical and unnecessarily spiteful towards normies.